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Hidee hi, I recently paid a visit home to Ireland to meet my brother while he was vacation. He lives in New York. When it comes to technology, he's waaay behind the curve. Never even had a mobile phone until some friends recently goaded him into getting an iphone. When he told me how much he...

Hi, I hope this isn't too basic a question, but what browsers are members using? For years I've been using Opera exclusively, but I'm not happy with it any more. Things really went downhill after Opera 15 when they switched to Chromium I was somewhat shocked at the aggressiveness of the Opera...

Hi, I just got a new server from a reputable provider I've used for some time . All is well, and I'm set-up with Ubuntu14.04. My first steps when getting a new server, after updating it, is to implement some basic security: 1. Disable root. 2. Enable only one user, added to sudoers (I am the...

Hi, Just a heads-up as I haven't seen it mentioned: OVH seem to be back offering their atom-based dedis again. http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/ Price has gone up a little but still seems good value, esp for the disk space.  I got in on the first round last year and I've been really happy with it...

Hi, I usually don't bother with christmas presents (bah humbug!), This year I'm feeling more humane and I'm thinking to set-up a few regional VPNs and allow a select few friends and family to use them.   Max 10 users total, mostly light and legal use. Maybe the odd BBC iplayer or Hulu stream...

Hi, Amongst today's revelations about NSA's data collection activities is the suggestion that VPNs can be decrypted at will. See slide #17 Not being an expert in this stuff, can anyone explain how this could be possible? If it was do-able in 2008, how far have they advanced since then? Cheeeers.

Hi, At this stage I'm fairly adept at setting-up and administering a VPS from scratch. But now I've ordered one of the cheapo OVH dedicated servers and I'm wondering about what additional administration tasks I should explore. For example, managing the hard disk. Can it/ should it be...

...or other IMAP server... Note: I removed the original text because the code tags were messing-up the formatting, and some configuration text wouldn't display properly. Hence it wouldn't work. Here's link to a post with the same details: http://bigchemdatabase.wordpress.com/sunday-linux/